CPHM: CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH | UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE Flashcards
The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort
Public Health
An organized community effort to address the public interest in health by applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health
Public Health
“The future of public health”
Institute of Medicine, 1988
ensure conditions that promote the health of the community
Mission of PH
Preventing the initial development of a disease
Examples: Immunization, reducing exposure to a risk factor
Primary prevention
Early detection of existing disease to reduce severity and complications
example: Screening for cancer
Secondary prevention
Reducing the impact of the disease
examples: Rehabilitation for stroke
Tertiary prevention
Area of Difference
Clinical/Hospital Health: Hospital wards, special clinic units in hospital
Community Health: Outside of hospital - home, school, RHU, place of work
Setting/place of practice and activities
Area of Difference
Clinical/Hospital Health: Mostly sick people; maybe limited to one group of patients
Community Health: Varied patients, representing total heath spectrum
Types of patients seen
Area of Difference
Clinical/Hospital Health: Mostly curative and rehabilitative
Community Health: Total care, whole range of services
Source of concern/range of services provided
Area of Difference
Clinical/Hospital Health: Comfort and care during illness, recovery from disease
Community Health: Promotion and maintenance of health; prevention of disease
Priority concern
Area of Difference
Clinical/Hospital Health: Individual patient
Community Health: The family, population groups, whole community
Unit or focus of care
Area of Difference
Clinical/Hospital Health: Maximum comfort, patient independence (self care), recovery
from disease, peaceful/dignified death for terminal cases
Community Health: Effective coping and self-reliance for families and the whole community
Ultimate goal
Determinants of Health
Education Access and Quality
Health Care and Quality
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Social and Community Context
Economic Stability
year when WHO members, International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan,
1977
20th Word Health Assembly
Resolution
t or f
“ the main social targets of governments and WHO in the coming decades should be the attainment by all citizens of the world by year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life”
true
“Essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost the community or the country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self determination”
Alma Ata Declaration of 1978
formspartof a country’s health care system
Overall socioeconomic development of a community
Primary Health Care (PHC)
First level of contact with the national health system
Primary Health Care (PHC)
health care as close as possible to where people live and work
Primary Health Care (PHC)